Storage and retrieval of thermal light in warm atomic vapor

Young-Wook Cho; Yoon-Ho Kim

doi:10.1117/12.870861

30 August 2010 Storage and retrieval of thermal light in warm atomic vapor

Young-Wook Cho, Yoon-Ho Kim

Proceedings Volume 7815, Quantum Communications and Quantum Imaging VIII; 781513 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.870861
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2010, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

We report an experimental demonstration of slowed propagation and storage and retrieval of thermal light using the effect of electromagnetically-induced transparency (EIT) in the Λ-type system of the D1 transition of ⁸⁵Rb atom. The slowed-propagation of the probe thermal light beam through an EIT medium is observed by measuring the second-order correlation function of the light field using the Hanbury-Brown-Twiss interferometer. We also demonstrate the storage and retrieval of thermal light beam in the EIT medium. The direct measurement of the photon number statistics of the retrieved light field shows that the photon number statistics is preserved during the storage and retrieval process.

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Young-Wook Cho and Yoon-Ho Kim "Storage and retrieval of thermal light in warm atomic vapor", Proc. SPIE 7815, Quantum Communications and Quantum Imaging VIII, 781513 (30 August 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.870861

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